@alexschwartz.bsky.social
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For some I think it's pretty obvious people just don't like the idea rather than the word: "privilege" is a perfectly easy to understand ordinary language word whose activist meaning is just the same as the normal one, some kinda advantage. And there's, at least, no easy alternate for "patriarchy".
It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.
August 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
For some I think it's pretty obvious people just don't like the idea rather than the word: "privilege" is a perfectly easy to understand ordinary language word whose activist meaning is just the same as the normal one, some kinda advantage. And there's, at least, no easy alternate for "patriarchy".
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Suppose I shouldn't be surprised that someone calling for abandoning the humanities would use "begs the question" like this.
(Got 'em folks, got 'em.)
(Got 'em folks, got 'em.)
August 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Suppose I shouldn't be surprised that someone calling for abandoning the humanities would use "begs the question" like this.
(Got 'em folks, got 'em.)
(Got 'em folks, got 'em.)
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This is 25 year old Parnia Abassi. She was an English teacher and a poet. She was killed alongside her younger brother and parents in Israel's attacks on residential areas in Iran last night.
Say their names. Share their stories. Don't let them erase the legacy of their aggression.
Say their names. Share their stories. Don't let them erase the legacy of their aggression.
June 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This is 25 year old Parnia Abassi. She was an English teacher and a poet. She was killed alongside her younger brother and parents in Israel's attacks on residential areas in Iran last night.
Say their names. Share their stories. Don't let them erase the legacy of their aggression.
Say their names. Share their stories. Don't let them erase the legacy of their aggression.
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one of the most insane normalized aspects of our political climate is politicians going after their own constituents in the name of anti-wokeness. what are we doing here
May 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
one of the most insane normalized aspects of our political climate is politicians going after their own constituents in the name of anti-wokeness. what are we doing here
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“Progressive taxation is the single most important policy lever for reducing the power of the rich—not because it raises revenue that can be redistributed via public programs or directly to the poor, but because it imposes a de facto statutory maximum on income or wealth.” @econmarshall.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“Progressive taxation is the single most important policy lever for reducing the power of the rich—not because it raises revenue that can be redistributed via public programs or directly to the poor, but because it imposes a de facto statutory maximum on income or wealth.” @econmarshall.bsky.social
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The fact that Oded is still heralded as a scientific leader says all you need to know about science IMO.
Itai Yanai is now putting together with Oded Rechavi and others the Woodstock of Biology 2 & Night Science conference to integrate some of Itai's ideas into a scientific meeting. #theconferencetoendallconferences
More info & registration here: woodstock.img.cas.cz
More info & registration here: woodstock.img.cas.cz
April 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The fact that Oded is still heralded as a scientific leader says all you need to know about science IMO.
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"Users on the official #bluesky app can configure their moderation settings but have no way to #optout of the #Moderation service Bluesky provides. This includes its use of #geographiclabelers, like the newly added Turkish moderation labeler that handles the #censorship of accounts mandated in […]
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April 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
"Users on the official #bluesky app can configure their moderation settings but have no way to #optout of the #Moderation service Bluesky provides. This includes its use of #geographiclabelers, like the newly added Turkish moderation labeler that handles the #censorship of accounts mandated in […]
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Breaking: The Trump Admin has killed second avenue subway and the Inter borough Express rail project.
This will have to be fully funded by the state to get completed.
This will have to be fully funded by the state to get completed.
February 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Breaking: The Trump Admin has killed second avenue subway and the Inter borough Express rail project.
This will have to be fully funded by the state to get completed.
This will have to be fully funded by the state to get completed.
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if I were Europe I'd be doing a crash university buildout right now. a whole bunch of top US academics can be had at pennies on the dollar www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...
The DOGE Brain Drain Has Begun
It’s not just jobs cut and agencies gutted. It’s the talent that will be lost for generations to come.
www.thebulwark.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
if I were Europe I'd be doing a crash university buildout right now. a whole bunch of top US academics can be had at pennies on the dollar www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...
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In this house we subscribe to @financialtimes.com, @discourseblog.com, @haaretzcom.bsky.social, and also just FYI if you live in DC you can get @washingtonpost.com you can read it by going through your local library!
I’m a paid subscriber to outlets and co-ops that cover things I care about:
@nymag.com
@newrepublic.com
@slate.bsky.social
@gothamist.com
@discourseblog.com
@theflytrapmedia.bsky.social
@flaminghydra.com
And most recently @wired.com
#NewsroomSupporterRollCall
#ISupportWriters
@nymag.com
@newrepublic.com
@slate.bsky.social
@gothamist.com
@discourseblog.com
@theflytrapmedia.bsky.social
@flaminghydra.com
And most recently @wired.com
#NewsroomSupporterRollCall
#ISupportWriters
(the public at large got accustomed to free digital journalism subsidize by ads, but then tech companies like Google Facebook, and Instagram snatched up all that ad money so here we are)
February 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In this house we subscribe to @financialtimes.com, @discourseblog.com, @haaretzcom.bsky.social, and also just FYI if you live in DC you can get @washingtonpost.com you can read it by going through your local library!
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So ADUs under 900 sqft are now legal in Mass
The interior ADUs are funny to me because we’ve essentially legalized two-family homes as long as one unit is small enough
Next we should just legalize two-family homes outright
The interior ADUs are funny to me because we’ve essentially legalized two-family homes as long as one unit is small enough
Next we should just legalize two-family homes outright
February 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
So ADUs under 900 sqft are now legal in Mass
The interior ADUs are funny to me because we’ve essentially legalized two-family homes as long as one unit is small enough
Next we should just legalize two-family homes outright
The interior ADUs are funny to me because we’ve essentially legalized two-family homes as long as one unit is small enough
Next we should just legalize two-family homes outright
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Late last night, with about 15 minutes notice to the Union, the NLRB’s HR sent an email adopting the terms of the forked-up resignation scam. HR also provided us a contract that appears to be drafted by AI or LegalZoom. As labor lawyers, we’re happy to go over this in detail. 🧵
February 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Late last night, with about 15 minutes notice to the Union, the NLRB’s HR sent an email adopting the terms of the forked-up resignation scam. HR also provided us a contract that appears to be drafted by AI or LegalZoom. As labor lawyers, we’re happy to go over this in detail. 🧵
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A good cheat sheet for shopping Canadian
February 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A good cheat sheet for shopping Canadian
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This is ... pretty good, actually.
Took some effort but I got Deepseek to produce a pretty good accessible explanation for why indifference curves and the general equilibrium models built atop them are so fundamentally bankrupt.
January 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This is ... pretty good, actually.
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This Salt Typhoon stuff is insane. The entire FISA surveillance infrastructure has been completely owned by China and literally no part of our telecom infrastructure is safe to use without end-to-end encryption.
December 29, 2024 at 9:50 AM
This Salt Typhoon stuff is insane. The entire FISA surveillance infrastructure has been completely owned by China and literally no part of our telecom infrastructure is safe to use without end-to-end encryption.
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"We are not asking the Council to take a position on Palestine. We are asking you to let us, as members of the MLA community, debate on whether we wish, as a collective, to take a position." A letter from former MLA EC members, now on Chris Newfield's blog: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2024/12/mla-...
MLA and BDS 2: Letter from former members of the MLA Executive Council to Current Executive Council on Blocking the Debate
Lake Michigan from MLA Hotel on January 6, 2019 Background headnote is here . December 17, 2024 Dear Members of the Executive Council of ...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
December 29, 2024 at 9:53 PM
"We are not asking the Council to take a position on Palestine. We are asking you to let us, as members of the MLA community, debate on whether we wish, as a collective, to take a position." A letter from former MLA EC members, now on Chris Newfield's blog: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2024/12/mla-...
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no longer a democracy in america's 10th largest state. governed instead by a permanent GOP majority, locked into power by rigged maps. Might be the whole country soon. Stealing our country from us.
The 5–2 conservative supermajority on the North Carolina Supreme Court is almost assuredly not going to block any of these new laws.
Democrats have a chance to flip the NC Supreme Court if they win judicial races in 2026 and 2028. That's the only plausible path around this power-grab.
Democrats have a chance to flip the NC Supreme Court if they win judicial races in 2026 and 2028. That's the only plausible path around this power-grab.
December 11, 2024 at 11:19 PM
no longer a democracy in america's 10th largest state. governed instead by a permanent GOP majority, locked into power by rigged maps. Might be the whole country soon. Stealing our country from us.
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Dear Perro Sanxes,
I am 26 year old American Citizen. My people and my country yearn the freedom and justice you enjoy in Spain. please send Eurofighter Typhoons, a collection of spanish wine, and a buch of civil servants who work in metro construction agencies
I am 26 year old American Citizen. My people and my country yearn the freedom and justice you enjoy in Spain. please send Eurofighter Typhoons, a collection of spanish wine, and a buch of civil servants who work in metro construction agencies
BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”
Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so 'they cannot be undone in the future' - Olive Press News Spain
PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain's constitution so they 'can never be undone'. The left-wing PSOE
www.theolivepress.es
December 7, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Dear Perro Sanxes,
I am 26 year old American Citizen. My people and my country yearn the freedom and justice you enjoy in Spain. please send Eurofighter Typhoons, a collection of spanish wine, and a buch of civil servants who work in metro construction agencies
I am 26 year old American Citizen. My people and my country yearn the freedom and justice you enjoy in Spain. please send Eurofighter Typhoons, a collection of spanish wine, and a buch of civil servants who work in metro construction agencies
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Writing a grant is great for developing ideas, but does your proposal actually affect whether or not you get funded?
Turns out, your full proposal does not affect your ranking much! Whaat? 😯
Simsek et al. 2024: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Turns out, your full proposal does not affect your ranking much! Whaat? 😯
Simsek et al. 2024: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 5, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Writing a grant is great for developing ideas, but does your proposal actually affect whether or not you get funded?
Turns out, your full proposal does not affect your ranking much! Whaat? 😯
Simsek et al. 2024: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Turns out, your full proposal does not affect your ranking much! Whaat? 😯
Simsek et al. 2024: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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It won't be just the LA Times and Washington Post. It will be your employer, your university, your school district, and your local elected officials. They will all cave and engage in anticipatory obedience to fascism because of their cowardice and greed.
Your institutions will not save you.
Your institutions will not save you.
October 25, 2024 at 5:28 PM
It won't be just the LA Times and Washington Post. It will be your employer, your university, your school district, and your local elected officials. They will all cave and engage in anticipatory obedience to fascism because of their cowardice and greed.
Your institutions will not save you.
Your institutions will not save you.